The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-04
ACCORDING TO GRADY.
The Apostle Of the New South Tells
Kew the G03d Work Goes On.
Iron, Cotton seed, Marble and Jersey
Cews-The Piedmont Expedition
Six Years Of Progress.
Atlanta, Ga. y, Correspondence Of the Globe
Democrat.

Atlanta, Ga, Correspondents Of the Globe
Democrat.
An enterprising manager in the
North has offered Henry W. Grady
$4,000, or some such round sum, to
deliver course OF lectures the com
ing winter. The proposition ought
70 be accepted, There are dollars in
il for the manager, fame in 1t for Mr..
Grady and millions in it for Georgia
and the New South. The story Of
the New South is one that the whole
country wants TO hear, and nobody
can tell it as this Georgian can. He
makes the dry figures blaze with in
terest when he says in his intense
manner.
"There are 100000 artisans at
work in the South today that were
not here in 1880, and this does not
include the Thousands that are build
ing new enterprises, We manuiact.
ured last year s2l3,sO0,OOO worth Of
articles that six years ago we bought
from the North or West. In the six
years following the Cotton Exposi-
tion I73 new cotton mills have been
built in the South, starting 100000
new spindles. The South is witness
ing today an industrial revolution
for which history has no precedent.
Figures do not measure it, and
amazement is simply limited by com
prehension. II the Piedmont Ex-
position can fairly epitomise it that
show will be the miracle Of the day"
SIX YEARS oP PROGRESS.
Eight o'clock in the morning, an
early hour for the managing editor OF
a daily newspaper, finds Mr.. Grady
in his buggy. behind a big bay horse,
moving ON. Peschtree street to the
Exposition grounds. He is one Of
the pushers in chief Of this enter
prise, and all Atlanta is with him.
Half dozen years ago the city had q
cotton exposition, which drew atten-
ton to industrial possibilities in the
South. At that exposition, said
Mr.. Grady, BIRMINGHAM made her
irst show Of resources and got her
start. People came here from the
North by thousands, and received
new impressions Of the South. Now
we are going to have them come
again, and surprise them with the
evidences Of what changes have
taken place since then. We will
have Georgia marble to show them
in colors enough TO make rainbow.
At Marietta, only forty miles above
here, We have got the largest marble
works in the country. | can take
you up there and show you a creek
running for mile over bed of mar
bic as pure and fine as that Of the
tub Csligula bathed in. Two Chi.
esgo men came down here and devel.
oped the industry. Luckily for the
Georgian who owned the land, he
didn Z sell. lie had heard his father
say that white stone would be worth
something some day, and he allowed
the Chieagoans 10 work il on royalty.
They are shipping out nearly train
load a day. They have built up .
town they call Elizabeth around the
works. Two or three other parties
are going into the same indus try"
IRON FOR THE WORLD.
I'VE have salc that we didn't know
anything about" Mr.. Brady contin.
ued. within four miles Of Atlauts
parties are digging for gold. Within
twenty miles Of this city Burke, Of
the New Orleans Times. Democrat,
has made investments in manganese
deposits which promise to make
handsome returns. But more amaI-
ing than all, in 1890 the South pro-
iucel 100000 ions Of iron last year
We turned out $4,000 tons. Here
was an increase in seven years 10
startle the world, but there are now
in actual process OF erection in che
South thirty.one iron furnaces with
= capacity Of 5000 tons n day or
l,WO,OOO tons per annum, so that
where We increased 10000 in seven
years We will now increase 900, 900
IONS in one year"
Doesn't that mean over produo.
tion2"
"All the Pittsburg furnaces will
stop before VIC do. We can make
iron for 80 ton, aud perhaps for a
little less. Where all the facilities
we're at hand il has been made in the
South for s. 81 aud o."
The buildings Of the Cotton Ex.
position were turned into mills.
Could they have been put 10 more
appropriate use2 The Piedmont ex-
position grounds are in 8 new local.
ity, north Of the city. Hills have
been levelsd TO make a race course,
great buildinys have been erected,
natural park has been beautifed, and
on the day alter the st. Louis Fair
closes, the Pates will open on the
Piedmont exposition, q show which
will compare with the Cotton Expo.
sition as the South OF today does with
the conditions OF half a dozen years
ago.
I'VE have patterned after the plan
OF Sc. Louis," Mr.. Grady said, In
sombininsa live stock and agricul.
tural show with the features Of an
exposition.
dRoRalA FARMING.
Can Georgia muster the improved
stocks 10 make oreditablo erhiti.
tion2" was asked as memory called
up the "rasor backs, the scrub cows,
and the crackers "nAshtacky" pony
oil the past.
Mr.. Grady smiled pityingly as b.
said: I'VE will have 300 Jersey
COWS in our sheds IRON this State.
We will have Georgia raised horses
that will go below 2:2i, We give a
premium Of $50 20 the county
making tho best display Of improved
stock, and We will have animals that
your Northern and Western farmers
will like to look Of"
To illustrate the revolution in the
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